Overview

Quick Surface Reconstruction easily and quickly recovers surfaces from digitized data that has been cleaned up and tessellated using the Digitized Shape Editor.

This guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with the Quick Surface Reconstruction product.

Quick Surface Reconstruction in a Nutshell

Quick Surface Reconstruction offers several approaches to recover surfaces depending of the type of shape:

  • Organic shapes, i.e. free form surfaces, without features such as cylinders, fillets, planes, etc.
  • Mechanical shapes (plane, cylinder, sphere, cone).

Thanks to Quick Surface Reconstruction tools that analyze curvature or iso-slope properties, users can easily create mesh segmentations in pertinent surfaces area. Quick Surface Reconstruction includes its own quality selecting tools.

Before Reading this Guide

Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic Version 6 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all Version 6 products. It also describes the general layout of Version 6 and the interoperability between workbenches.

Getting the Most Out of this Guide

To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the step-by-step user tasks, which cover all product functionalities.

The Interface Description section, which describes the commands that are specific to Quick Surface Reconstruction, and the Customizing section, which explains how to customize settings, will also certainly prove useful.